Mal ,'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Augh, I want to buy the Sayers, except I don't think I need them all, but then which ones do I choose? It's not like I'm going to get rid of my paper copies, so then it's only for convenience...
I could get Gaudy Night, Have His Carcasse, and Busman's Honeymoon. And Murder Must Advertise. And The Nine Tailors. Oh, shit, and Strong Poison.
Personally, if I needed to drop a couple, I'd skip The Nine Tailors and Have His Carcasse. I did like all the Whimsey novels but those two were my least favorite. The Nine Tailors because I could not get interested in the bell ringing details. "Have His Carcasse" because it is the only one of the series I can't remember a single detail of, so apparently nothing of it whatever stuck.
Have His Carcasse is definitely the weakest of the Peter and Harriet books, but I'm too much of a completist to leave it out, and it has some scenes I really like.
And I'm a musician, so I like the bell ringing, though it's kind of insane.
The bell ringing details were my favorite part!
I ended up getting Strong Poison through the end, and leaving out The Nine Tailors.
I like Nine Tailors for the images of the flooding.
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best English translation of Les Miserables?
Does anyone have a recommendation for the best English translation of Les Miserables?
Don't get the one where they translated the title as The Sad Heads.
Also the cover for that one totally spoils that it's a book about bread.
You guys! I have Discount Armageddon to read on the plane tomorrow! I'm very excited to be finally reading it. (In part because I've had three or four different people tell me I remind them of the Aeslin mice. This baffles me, but I assume it will be clear once I read the book.)